Underground Base - Dawsonville GA, page 11

reply to post by hexed1911

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I know a little about this base, via a friend who is ex Air Force and lives near this abandoned base. According to him, this base was set up in a very remote location of Georgia in the 1950's. This part of Georgia was very remote the, but was not too far from Atlanta Army Air Base and Dobbins ARB. The Air Force created this base to test the idea of nuclear propulsion for aircraft. Back then, atomic energy was the solution for everything, from potentially knocking out hurricanes to powering submarines, to powering aircraft without refueling. Imagine nuclear powered bombers flying all the way to Moscow. I worked at Wright Patterson AFB where there is still a testing dome that housed a reactor so the AF could test airplane structures exposed to radiation for just such a product. The AF needed a remote location to test engines, so the woods of Dawsonville GA would hide a very small location. As my friend related, it was abandoned in the 60's, but there are still some parts of the base there, including the concrete stands the engines were put on instead of wings. I have never been to this site, but I know approximately where it is and live a few miles from it. I would say it is possible some of the radioactive material is still there, at least that area still may be contaminated.

reply to post by hexed1911

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Hey man i live in Dawsonville so i have been all around this place my whole life it in fact is a place where they tried to build nuclear airplanes and stuff of that sort i know the exact bridge you are talking about there are two ways into dawson forrest i know where the entrance to lockheed is because the guy that married my aunt worked down there so we went out to the entrace and sure enough it was there we walked for forever it seemed like on these winding stairs and finally got to the bottom and all it was was a big lake were the government flooded it and we could see the tops of trucks and you could not see any other walls this place is the most questioned topic in dawsonville and i have the answers.

reply to post by hexed1911

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Your post is amusing. The actual story of the Dawsonville Nuclear Facility is more interesting than your fevered conspiracies. It was operated by Lockheed around 1959-1962 period. They were doing radiation exposure experiments in connection with a "nuclear powered bomber" project (turned out to be a nuclear powered cruise missle) cancelled early in the Kennedy administration in favor of ICBM's.

Georgia Tech guru Gene Greneker is researching a book on the topic. Again...the true story is more interesting than your imaginings...and yes, all project records were suspiciously destroyed. However, local and Atlanta newspapers covered the plant when it was operating...it was the first nuclear reactor in Georgia.

reply to post by hexed1911

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I live in Dawsonville, GA and have been to the base many times,
your explanation of the base is consistent with my grandfathers stories, I just have one addition, my granfather worked for Lockheed Martin complex in Atlanta, (who owns all that land) and he's told me they were trying to make a nuclear powered plane, however they could not make the reactor small enough, so they buried the reactor and sealed up the base, I've heard MANY stories of the area, concerning radiation.

reply to post by sofaman

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where in ga are you? I can give you directions. I live about 4 miles from the forest!

reply to post by rcwj75

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i live in cumming and go the the forest all the time trying to find the old base with my friends

reply to post by rcwj75

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i did you path of google earth and i couldn't seem to find this 4 way dirt road you were talking about and the parking lot with the hot building?

reply to post by sofaman

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Trust me its there...the parking lot is right as you come in the forest on your right....you HAVE to drive by it. and the 4 way intersection is at the top of a slight hill...the right roadway is normally closed and used for horses and the left roadway is chad rd or something like that...but keep going straight to the end of the blacktop...when you hit dirt..your at the base...on the left...TRUST ME...

reply to post by rcwj75

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THANK YOU very much!!

reply to post by rcwj75

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Do you know if anyone has brought a rad meter out there? I was thinking about checking this out when I get back.

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thats cool do you remember how to get there? ive been to alot of the places out there but ive only heard rumors of those stairs.

reply to post by rcwj75

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cant you tell me where the back entrace is? i went to the spot your talking about and walked around the woods and actually found one of the tunnels. i had to dig it out for a week or two but i got in and walked down the tunnel for a while but then i just came to a bunch of water and couldnt go any further. but when they closed the forest last year they covered it back up ALOT higher and with trees in the dirt but someone else has almost got the stairs dug back out. but if you could tell me where the back entrance is that would be great.

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